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Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

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Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

Introduction - Origin of the name

Water Through the Note of Grain Water: "In the pond of the Pond of the Ridge is the county of Emaku." "Yu Gong" Yun: "Shu is also regarded as a 'weasel' water worm." There is a pond in the west of the city, which is born by injecting water, because of the name of the pond. "The Warring States belonged to Han and later entered Qin. Chronology of the Six Kingdoms: King Huiwen of Zhao for twenty years "and Qin huichi", that is. Qinzhi Shichi County, ruled by present-day Zhucheng Village, west of Shichi County, belonged to Sanchuan County. "Daming Yi Tongzhi": Shichi "in the north of Shichi County, the mole resembles a frog and has a large belly, and the pond has this, because of its name".

Shichi County is now part of Sanmenxia City, Henan Province.

Yellow River map

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

The Yellow River enters from huaipu village in the northwest of the territory and exits into Xin'an 1.5 kilometers east of Guanjia village in the northeast, with a flow of 58.5 kilometers. The Jiankou River flows into the Yellow River in the territory of Shichi.

Yellow River Danxia

The Yellow River Danxia is located on the bank of the Yellow River 21 kilometers north of Sanmenxia City, at the junction of five counties in Yujin And Jin Provinces. Provincial Geopark, the entire canyon is composed of red quartz sandstone, from the valley floor to the cliff wall is all reddish brown. 1.2 billion years ago, this place was once a vast ocean, and Danxia is a powerful witness to the vicissitudes of the sea, and now the canyon can still see the stone marks left by the ocean waves.

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

The canyon is "V" shaped, 8 kilometers long, 2-30 meters wide, and the sea drop is 200-600 meters; the valley is lined with strange rocks, cliffs and cliffs, ancient trees, flying waterfalls, constant temperature, and spring in all seasons. The main attractions are natural murals, double dragon play beads, seven star stones, monkey looking at the moon, Shougu Lion, Shiren Mountain, Goddess Pond, a line of heaven, a thousand cliffs, stalactites, Optimus Prime, Camel Peak, Lover's Valley, Fairy Cave, Water Curtain Cave, Official Seal Platform, Geological Heavenly Book, as well as natural landscapes such as Eight Pools and Eight Waterfalls composed of Black Tiger Pond and Yellow Dragon Waterfall; as well as rare fossils such as corrugated stones and tree mold stones; there are also leisure and entertainment projects such as Yellow River rafting, Yellow River cruise ships, ziplines, high-speed vehicles, Yellow River fishing and so on.

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

The Yellow River Danxia brings together a variety of peculiar natural landscapes such as strange mountains, strange rocks, dangerous valleys, Clear Streams, deep pools, and dense forests, and is a beautiful scenery in the north of the mainland. In early spring, the mountains on both sides of the strait are full of flowers and colorful, and you can board a boat and look at the peach blossoms on the shore; you can also hit the water and fight the waves, and watch the spring water from a close distance. In the middle of summer, the valley is cool and quiet, the stream is babbling, you can not only fly stones and jump waterfalls, experience enthusiastic rafting, but also escape the summer and cultivate yourself. In autumn, the maple leaves are like fire and wild fruits are fragrant, which can not only climb high and look far, but also dabble in colorful autumn colors, but also be in the dense forest and taste natural game. In the middle of winter, the earth is wrapped in silver and wax, which can not only explore the snow in the mountains and watch the cycle of the four seasons; but also fish the Cold River alone and read the poetic life.

Yangshao Grand Canyon

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

Yangshao Grand Canyon is located in the world-famous Birthplace of Yangshao Culture - Shichi County, north of the Yellow River Xiaolangdi Reservoir Area. The total length of the canyon is more than 50 kilometers, with a total area of 56 square kilometers, and there are more than 500 natural and cultural landscapes of various types.

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

Six scenic spots have been preliminarily explored, namely Xian Gorge, Shengui Gorge, Longhu Gorge, Jindeng Gorge, Woyang Gorge and Hanging Coffin Valley. Yangshao Grand Canyon is characterized by danger, strangeness, tranquility and majesty, and is favored by tourists. Xianxia cliff confrontation, moss full of rocks, waterfall splashing, extremely steep; Shengui Gorge pond springs are connected, strange stones and wonderful life, the peaks are beautiful and picturesque; longhu gorge ancient trees are everywhere, caves are repeated, winding paths, like a fairyland; the golden lantern gorge peak back to the water, the qi peak is steep, magnificent, magnificent, magnificent as a song. The Grand Canyon steps to change the scenery, the scenery changes from time to time, it can be called a paradise, a natural oxygen bar, a waterfall grand view, and a treasure house of strange stones. Its resource types are diverse, perfectly combined, and rare in China.

Yangshao Cultural Site

Yangshao Village is an ordinary village, and on the terrace south of the village, an important site of the Chinese Neolithic Period, the Yangshao Ruins, has been discovered. The site faces water on three sides and is bordered by Shaoshan Mountain in the north, with an area of about 300,000 square meters and a cultural accumulation of up to 4 meters thick. In 1921, when the Swede Anderson inspected this place, he discovered this site, which attracted great attention from historians. In 1931, Chinese archaeologist Liang Siyong first discovered the relationship between the Shang Dynasty culture, Longshan culture and Yangshao culture in Anyang Hougang, that is to say, the relationship between Yangshao culture, Longshan culture and Shang culture was determined in the morning and evening, which is of great significance.

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

In 1951, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences conducted a large-scale excavation of the site in Yangshao Village, and obtained rich archaeological data, according to carbon 14 measurement, the age of the site was determined to be about 5000 to 6000 years old. The excavated cultural relics include stone axes, stone shovels, stone hoes, spinning wheels, bone cones, bone needles, and daily utensils such as pottery bowls, clay pots, pottery bowls, and clay pots, and most of the utensils are painted with patterns. Because this culture was first discovered in Yangshao Village, it was named "Yangshao Culture".

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

Yangshao culture is the most powerful culture in the Yellow River Basin, it is the most widely distributed culture in the various Neolithic cultures of the same period in China, with Henan, Shaanxi and Jinnan as the center, the west to the Gansu Hexi Corridor, the east to Luxi, the north to the central Hebei and the Inner Mongolia River Loop, the south to the Hanshui River Basin, more than 1,000 Yangshao culture sites have been discovered, and the culture has a long duration.

Qin Zhao will be a member of the Taiwan

The process of the meeting of Qin and Zhao Shuchi is found in the Chronicle of Lian Po Lin Xiangru. In 279 BC, Qin, in the face of repeated defeats of Zhao, proposed that the two sides meet at Shichi in order to reach the unanimity gains of the war at the negotiating table. At the banquet, the King of Qin coerced King Zhao to drum up ser and ordered the zhao historian to record it in the history of Qin, which made king Zhao feel extremely embarrassed. At that time, Lin Xiang, the grand master of the Zhao Kingdom, forced the King of Qin to strike at him with righteousness, and also ordered the zhao state historian to record it in the history of Zhao. The officials of the State of Qin were not convinced, and threatened the State of Zhao to cut off the fifteen cities to the King of Qin to wish shou, and Lin Xiangru also forced the State of Qin to cut off the capital City of Xianyang to give the King of Zhao a birthday. So tit-for-tat, until the end of the banquet, the King of Qin did not get the slightest bargain, and finally the two sides buried their weapons on the ground in order to show the success of the peace talks, so that the soldiers buried the soil, so it became a mound, which was called "Huimengtai" by posterity and passed down to this day.

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

Huimengtai is about 1 km west of Shichi City between the triangular terrace between the Shishui and Yanghe Rivers, the view is wide, the terrain is flat, it is said that it was the warring states period Qin Zhaoxiang King and Zhao Huiwen King "friendly" meeting place, so it is called "Ancient Qin Zhaohui Mengtai" Ancient Qin Zhaohui Mengtai with its rich historical content, won the chanting of many poets and scribes since the Tang Dynasty, and the natural landscape of "Mengtai Xizhao" was listed as the first of the eight scenic spots of The Pond.

Stone carvings of the stone Buddha temple

The Shichi Stone Buddhist Temple Grottoes are located in wang tomb miaoxia village in Potou Township, northwest of Shichi County, Sanmenxia City, about 20 kilometers from the county seat. The grotto is backed by red sandstone cliffs and faces a mountain stream that is roughly north-south. In the grotto, because the main Buddha is 6 meters tall (Heshi system Zhangba), the locals commonly known as Zhangba Buddha Temple Ditch.

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

According to the Qing Jiaqing edition of the "Chronicle of Shichi County", the Stone Buddha Temple was built from the Tang Dynasty, a Zhangba Buddhist Temple, three Buddhist halls, and the middle stone cliff was engraved into a Buddha statue, and the statue was carved on the side of the second year of the Middle School. There is a stone cave on the left, eight feet deep and eight feet wide, 22 stone Buddhas, and countless small Buddha statues. Sitting in the west to the East Buddha Hall, a front stone bridge, a Guandi and Bodhisattva Halls, a Heavenly King Hall, a hole in the left half of the cliff grotto, there are Chenghua, Jiajing laughing ugly reconstruction monument. The Republic of China version of the county Zhixiu Shangguan Junmo field interview survey, it is not "Tang Da Zhong second year", should be "Tang Zhide second generation".

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

There are 4 existing niches in the Grotto of the Stone Buddha Temple, of which 3 are on the west side of the mountain stream and 1 is on the east side of the mountain stream. The main Buddha sits in the west and east, after thousands of years of wind and rain, this geological structure is a gravel layer, and the Buddha's face and left hand are seriously weathered. There is a small grotto on the right side of the Big Buddha, which can be standing inside, facing the mouth of the cave, and the arms can be straightened from side to side. There are more than a hundred large and small stone Buddhas on the stone wall, or man-made destruction, or weathering and destruction, most of which have been mutilated. In addition, there is also a grotto above the stone wall of the Big Buddha, and climb up the ladder to observe the inside of the grotto. According to the locals, the grotto was the residence of the monks, and the grotto on the opposite rock was a refuge for the monks to hide from bandits and store grain. In the grotto, we found that the stone holes on the stone rocks were arranged in an orderly manner, and it is estimated that these stone holes were wooden wedges inserted when the stone Buddha was built at that time, and the later wooden wedges decayed, leaving these stone holes.

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

Intangible Cultural Heritage - Ten Plates

Ten plates, also known as "ten fans", "ten drums", "social plates". It is a popular traditional music in the rural areas of western Henan, which is a symphonic music that integrates percussion and blowing music, which was originally based on percussion music, and the gong and drum and silk bamboo ensemble were later. Its striking method is unique, only knocking the first syllable of each section, its tone is simple, harmonious, bright and warm, the basic form of "ten plates" playing is blowing music, the performance is composed of two "cloud plate" ringing joints, assisted by touching bells, its main instrument is "pipe", and there are two plates of medium and low sound sheng, 4 bamboo tubes, ten sides of the cloud gong to form a basic band, play more classical music cards, play the basic tune for ancient music "all word tone". In the past, players used metric notation, but now they basically use simplified notation.

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

Legend has it that it arose during the Wu Zetian period of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also said that it originated from the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was the court music of the ancient emperors who held large-scale celebrations, and the music used by the temple Taoist temple for sacrifice, which was later spread to the folk, and later spread to the folk, and developed into a form of entertainment for peasants to celebrate and marry.

Folk culture - nine lotus lamps

The Nine Lotus Lantern is spread in Yang Village and Tao Village, Tianchi Township, Shichi County, and is the only flower lantern dance in Shichi County. On festive occasions, the number of performers is 20. Flower lanterns are self-made lotus lamps, fish lamps, five-star lamps, a pair of horse lamps and so on.

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

Flower lanterns are made of wood, bamboo grates, colored paper, the lamp is filled with wax made of butter, the wind cannot be extinguished, it can burn for 3 hours, the performers wear theatrical costumes, the action performance is based on the original simple round field step, compiled into the cloud step, three and three steps, forward and backward steps, the formation has a lotus flower, a dragon swing tail, a big bow, a snake peeling, twisted twist flowers, over the lamp, etc., with a lotus lamp composed of shapes such as lamp mountain, lamp slope, red five-star font type, etc.

Local specialty - Yangshao wine

Yangshao wine is one of the best wines in Zhongzhou, named after the factory site on the south side of the world-famous Yangshao cultural site.

Yellow River Danxia, Yangshao Ruins, Qin Zhao Hui Mengtai, Stone Buddha Temple, Yellow River Series (Shichi Chapter)

Yangshao winemaking, with a long history. Judging from the large number of wine utensils in Yangshao Village and the nearby Erlitou Cultural Site, our ancestors made wine here as early as 5000 to 6000 years ago. Since then, the winemaking industry has been greatly developed. According to the "Chronicle of Shichi County", "Zhixian Dongli xu, The Jade Emperor Temple Ditch, there is water extremely luscious, can help the taste of wine, winemakers take more of it, so the name Liquan." "Yangshao wine inherits and develops the traditional craft of the ancient "Liquan Spring", with high-quality sorghum as raw material, carefully blended, with colorless transparency, aromatic entrance, rich cellar aroma, sweet and clean, long aftertaste characteristics, and slightly apple flavor, is a gift to relatives and friends, accompanied by good food and banquet.

Post-order

Shiike is a city of culture with a long history. QinShi set up a county, which continues to this day, with a history of more than 2,000 years. Human civilization came from here, 45 million years ago, human ancestors flourished here; 7,000 years ago, Yangshao culture accumulated here; 2,000 years ago, Qin Zhao Huimeng sang heroes here; more than 70 years ago, red culture shone here.

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